Description
What should you expect when you're expecting to foster? This book is a guide to taking the first critical steps of your fostering journey, explaining what fostering is, how to become a foster carer and what it takes to thrive.
Combining invaluable advice from veteran foster carers, the expertise of the professionals who support them, and priceless experiences of foster children themselves, this book explains the fostering process step by step. It tackles all the questions that you've ever asked yourself about fostering: What is fostering really like? What are the challenges? What kind of difference could I make?
Comprehensive and accessible, this is the companion for first-time fosterers or those considering foster care.
The comprehensive handbook focused on the everyday practicalities of being a foster carer
About the Author
Andy Elvin is CEO of the UK's largest fostering and adoption charity, TACT. Martin Barrow is an experienced journalist, formerly News Editor of the Times, PR, Huffington Post, foster carer and foster care commentator/blogger.
Reviews
This is an important and timely book, which sets out both the challenges and the achievements of foster carers' day-by-day work. -- The Rt. Hon. The Lord Laming
This beautiful quote will stay with me forever:
"Always make sure they have a blanket when they leave. Don't wash it, as it needs to have a familiar smell to help them settle. Even our 16-year old took a blanket with her."
This is a great guide, packed full of information and insight about how best to navigate the world of fostering. -- Isabelle Trowler, Chief Social Worker for Children
It's the book I wish I'd had when I was considering fostering and in my first few years. -- Maxine Taylor, Foster carer
Book Information
ISBN 9781785922046
Author Andy Elvin
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publisher Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Weight(grams) 218g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 171mm * 17mm
